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Episode: Tame the Hysteria: Creating a Sane Discussion About Trans Kids in Sports
Description: Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday that transgender girls should be banned from playing on middle and high school sports teams or they will “destroy women's sports.”
“When transgender athletes compete against women, women’s sports are no longer women’s sports; they become unisex athletic events,” Utah Representative Mike Lee has said in a statement.
Tennis star Martina Navratilova opposes "an all-inclusive situation where trans men and women, just based on their self I.D., would be able to compete with no mitigation, no rules outside of that whatsever. And that clearly would not be a level playing field." Navrat...